Dysfunctional Shipping Awareness Month, Days 6&7
Have y'all missed my stabby pointer finger? I know I have! Adama-grade temper tantrum about some extremely disturbing topics below the cut.
( the ship the writers and fans are DOING IT WRONG (BSG) )
( the ship the writers and fans are DOING IT WRONG (BSG) )
LOL. Yep. And you know what? I can totally see it. They have some beautiful moments. I totally wrong!shipped them in S1, so. I get it. But. AND THEN THEY NEVER EVER BRING UP THE RAPE EVER AGAIN. And Helo has a beautiful happy ending with his rapist. WUT.
rescued a helpless infant from a mass murderer who spent all of her free time stomping around her cell yelling I REGRET NOTHING!!! and said mass murderer's thoroughly brainwashed accomplice. Um, that bitch? lol@haters.
TROLOLOLOLOL A++++++.
Why the discrepancy? Because Helo and Athena are married and have a baby and if it looks like normative American family life, it can't be abusive?
In fucking one. (Also, Kara/Leoben are the best. Whatever.)
In conclusion: We have the same conclusion. Athena/Helo is legit one of my favourite relationship dynamics on the show, and the writers' total failure to consistently problematise it is both baffling and absurd. /toasts to that
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See, this is the key piece of it that bothers me. I never really invested in Kara/Leoben, but I can at least engage with it intellectually sometimes, because I don't have to get stuck on how the show got bored with the months of sexualized abuse and so just forgot about it and expected me to do the same. Neither do I really think anyone who engages with the pairing sticks their fingers in their ears and pretends it's all fluffy and shit.
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